Prof. Dr. Janetta Culita received an M.S. degree in automatic control and computer science (1993) and a Ph.D. in automatic systems (2001) from the “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, where she is currently a full professor. Her research interests include (but are not limited to) system modeling and simulation, system identification and the control of non-linear processes, signal processing, metaheuristic optimization, and applications of discrete event dynamic systems. Prof. Culita has been a member of the Romanian Society of Automation and Technical Informatics since 1995 and has been on the Executive Board of the Control Engineering and Applied Informatics Journal since 2008.